Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: ASESm, 800 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 11 Mb

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Image ID: ASES

Credit:

by Osborn & Durbec
Date:

1861
Negative Size:

stereo
Equipment:

Barbette carriage (center pintle-wood); barrel; cannon; Columbiad gun; hot-shot furnace; sandbag
Locations & Lines:

Charleston Harbor; Charleston SC; Fort Moultrie SC; Fort Sumter SC; South Carolina; Sullivan’s Island (Charleston SC)
Military Units:

CS Army
Sources:

Library of Congress

Library of Congress says: Photograph shows the harbor face view of Fort Moultrie taken after the bombardment in April 1861. Photographers returned to the same spot in the fort that they had photographed in LOT 14110-1, no. 20 [see Related Image]. Fort Sumter is in the distance.

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